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FreeState

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Mon Jul 8, 2019, 09:27 PM Jul 2019

Jury: City Director Forced Religious Views on Employees, Taxpayers Stuck With $300K Verdict (San Die

This can and does happen everywhere...

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Jury-City-Director-Forced-Religious-Views-on-Employees-Taxpayers-Stuck-With-300K-Verdict-512442212.html

Jury: City Director Forced Religious Views on Employees, Taxpayers Stuck With $300K Verdict

In the following years, Johnson says Beale began to “inject” her religious beliefs on him and others in the office. The first incident, according to the lawsuit, occurred in 2008 as voters were asked to vote on Proposition 8, a ballot initiative which would have prevented same-sex marriage in California.

“Beale asked Johnson if he thought it was ‘okay if gays marry,’” reads Johnson’s federal complaint. “When Johnson replied that he had no problem with people marrying whomever they want, Beale told him he was ‘not a child of God.’”

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In 2011, Beale was promoted to Deputy Director of Archives and Records Management.
In his complaint, Johnson alleged Beale began leading “prayer sessions” in her new role as Deputy Director and urged her employees to attend church

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